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> Devs are a hard audience to sell to no, devs aren't hard to sell to. It's business owners that are hard to sell to. If you are running a business, every cos
by chii 3y ago
> Devs are a hard audience to sell to
no, devs aren't hard to sell to. It's business owners that are hard to sell to.
If you are running a business, every cost needs to be controlled for you to be profitable. Adopting open source is a form of cost control.
The problem of OSS is that the value proposition is that it is free-as-in-beer (as well as all of the benefits of OSS). So if/when the software becomes not free-as-in-beer, the company will have to reconsider, or change, or eat the cost if the cost is lower than the value generation of the software.
- ensignavenger 3y agoThe value of open source is that I don't have to waste my time negotiating contracts to license the software, I can make improvemwnts and customizations to it, I don't have to accept changes from upstream that are detrimental to my business, and no one can take it away from me. Open Source may also be less expensive, but I am paying with some combination of time and efort and support contracts or other service and sponsorships.